Document sharing sites have been around for quite a while, but only a handful of internet marketers are using them to improve their web presence. Content creation is the name of the game if you want to build traffic and backlinks to your blog. The most common strategies are article submissions to article directories, blogging networks, web 2.0 sites, social media sites, but were you aware that you can take the same article that you've already created, convert it to a PDF format and submit it to document sharing sitesto drive traffic and build backlinks and help you create the link diversity that the search engines love? This article will give you the nuts and bolts that you need to jump into document sharing.

Document Sharing Sites

Most document sharing sites are free to join and easy to use and few of them have strict editorial oversight. Did you know that the top document sharing platforms such as Scribd and Issuu have a page rank of 8, or that Yudu, SlideShare and Thinkfree are PR7 sites? What that means is that when you submit your content to them, you're building some powerful backlinks. What that also means is that these sites get tons of traffic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are true authority sites and it doesn't get any better than that.

Two Easy Steps To Document Sharing

Sign Up For Accounts

You can literally sign up for document sharing sites services in minutes. Only basic information is required. You can upload your image to make the site more personal or use an alias if you want. You should include your URL on the account page to receive 2 backlinks per content submission.

Create Your Document For Uploading

Document sharing sites allows you to submit your content in various formats which can include, .doc, .pdf, .els, .ppt and .txt . Usually they go live the minute you submit them. In theory your material can be viewed immediately by a large, waiting audience.

If you're already doing article marketing then all you have to do is convert your document to a PDF by copy and pasting, which takes no time at all. If you convert your original article to Power Point, then you can also submit it to sites such as Slide Share, eSnips as well as DocStoc and Scibd. A bonus is that you can take that Power Point and use screen capture software to create a video which you can then submit to YouTube and the other the video directories. Talk about a powerful SEO cocktail! This stuff is right out of the jet propulsion laboratory.

If you're familiar with article marketing all the same rules apply in that keyword research and creating keyword rich hyperlinks are still critical.


The 4 Key Benefits of Document Sharing Sites

1- Referring Search Engine Traffic
Google loves these sites and so you may start seeing increased search engine traffic.

2- Direct Traffic From Document Sharing Sites
These sites get millions of visitors, so you could benefit from increased traffic directly from these sites to your blog.

3- Quality Backlinks
Document sharing sites typically have high Alexa and page rank so you're creating the king of all backlinks. Document sites also get indexed which increases the chances of your document getting indexed as well.

4- Link Diversity
Adding document sharing sites to your linking strategy will increase your link diversity. So if your competition is linking to article and video directories swell as social media sites, but you're linking to all of those plus document sharing sites, then you could win the battle of the SERPS.
Now that's cool, don't you agree?

Here Are 15 Top Document Sharing Sites

1. http://www.scribd.com - Alexa Rank #288 - PR8
2. http://www.issuu.com - Alexa Rank #634 - PR8
3. https://www.slideshare.net -Alexa Rank #183 - PR8
4. http://www.yudu.com - Alexa Rank #5727 - PR7
5. http://member.thinkfree.com - Alexa Rank #34767 - PR7
6. http://www.esnips.com - Alexa Rank #3066 - PR6
7. http://www.smashwords.com - Alexa Rank #5734 - PR6
8. http://www.calameo.com - Alexa Rank #4397 - PR5
9. http://www.docstoc.com - Alexa Rank #1135 - PR4
10. http://www.edocr.com - Alexa Rank #5734 - PR4
11. http://docshare.com - Alexa Rank #1135 - PR4
12. http://www.doxtop.com - Alexa Rank #73,363 - PRn/a
13. http://www.youpublish.com - Alexa Rank #92,826 - PR3
14. http://www.gazhoo.com Alexa Rank #106,517 - PR3
15. http://www.e-library.com - not ranked

Final Thoughts on Document Sharing Sites

So what are you waiting for? I think that I have provided compeling reasons to include document sharing sites in your backlinking strategies. The benefits are many and the process is simple. I rest my case.

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